Bug 2559765 (CVE-2026-99052) - CVE-2026-99052 kernel: selinux: preserve NATIVE_LABELS on already-initialized sb in set_mnt_opts
Summary: CVE-2026-99052 kernel: selinux: preserve NATIVE_LABELS on already-initialized...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-99052
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-23 13:33 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-27 02:29 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-23 13:33:04 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

selinux: preserve NATIVE_LABELS on already-initialized sb in set_mnt_opts

When an NFSv4 filesystem exported with security_label is mounted a
second time, sget_fc() returns the existing superblock and
nfs_get_root() calls security_sb_set_mnt_opts() again on it. Since the
superblock is already SB_INITIALIZED, selinux_set_mnt_opts() takes an
early exit without setting SECURITY_LSM_NATIVE_LABELS in
*set_kern_flags. nfs_get_root() then sees kflags without
SECURITY_LSM_NATIVE_LABELS set and clears NFS_CAP_SECURITY_LABEL on
the shared nfs_server, silently disabling per-file labeling for both
the new and the original mount.

Commit 3815a245b501 ("security/selinux: fix SECURITY_LSM_NATIVE_LABELS
on reused superblock") fixed the same problem in
selinux_sb_clone_mnt_opts().  The reused-superblock path for a plain
second mount now goes through sb_set_mnt_opts rather than
sb_clone_mnt_opts, so it needs the same treatment: on both
SE_SBINITIALIZED early exits, set SECURITY_LSM_NATIVE_LABELS in
*set_kern_flags when the superblock was already using
SECURITY_FS_USE_NATVE.


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